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Punjabi Jhinzaki by Ancient Future
Ancient Future - Zakir Hussain History
On 6/8/97, Ancient Future played between #LosLobos & #ZakirHussain at Monterey World One Festival where #JimiHendrix burned his guitar at #MontereyPopFestival 3 decades before.
https://t.co/3tLw1hYrv7 Zakir Hussain - Ancient Future History: Zakir is on Ancient Future's 2nd Sona Gaia release. No rehearsal funds, so he listened on the way to the studio, memorized the bar numbers, & had questions about sections. I had to check the chart to count the bars!
Ancient Future - Zakir Hussain History: My 1st performance with him was in '78. He sat in with Sun Orchestra (Diga Rhythm Band offshoot) on timbales. He anticipated every note of my solo, which leaped into the stratosphere, forever changing my playing ! https://t.co/3tLw1hYrv7
Punjabi Jhinzaki by Ancient Future, featuring Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), George Brooks (sax), Kai Eckhardt (bass), and Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar), dropped today on Zakir Hussain's 75th birth anniversary. Happy birthday in the beyond...
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There are Spotify boycotts due to ICE ads, algorithms that keep people stuck in genre boxes, and low artist payments. My latest in hi-res on Tidal:
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My first ever solo recording on flamenco guitar drops this Friday, 12/12/25! But you can pre-save it now at https://t.co/rBuP3CPW4U!
And stay tuned because it's the improvised introduction to my composed piece Tres Tarantas Tres, coming 2/13/26: https://t.co/fyV4nxBDYj
On 3/16/77, I unexpectedly opened for the #Ramones with my high school girlfriend, singer and pianist Bambe Marlin who had gotten into punk rock. This event became a syzygy in the histories of #Nirvana, the #DeadKennedys and Ancient Future. Details at https://t.co/0LH0VlKVKY
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On 4/4/10, a new unnamed piece by Matthew Montfort was performed live on Please Stand By on KPIG. An audience member called suggesting the name East of the Sun. On 4/4/25, it dropped with Ancient Future's #Nirvana cover, Spirit of Nirvana.
@BrianStack153 11 years later, Van Morrison came to one of the first concerts by my band Ancient Future, and his parents were the first to carry our 1st record in their record store!
US attacks on Venezuela are decried as extrajudicial killings violating international law. Instead of authoritarianism, let's learn from our pasts. Here's my 2005 article praising Venezuela's law requiring a percentage of local music on the radio. https://t.co/dz7hmkZ1NN
Reel for Ancient Future's 1st rock cover, Purple Haze (Vietnamese Đàn Bầu Style), now an Apple Music instant grat download on Hendrix's 82nd birthday!
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@Ancient_Future I learned a lot from Jimi Hendrix when I started my guitar journey at age 12. But it has echoed and reverberated throughout my career in subtle and unusual ways in the Ancient Future, and now Hendrix seems to be with me as I go back to the future ancient...
Ancient Future - Hendrix History
8/12/68, Jimi joined Joan Baez at the “Operation Airlift Biafra Benefit” at the Scene Club in New York City. I taught two of Baez's relatives guitar, and on 8/12/05, Ancient Future performed at the Festival Internacional de la Guitarra in Spain.
Even though I'm most known as an acoustic guitarist, Jimi Hendrix shaped my music early on. I'm looking forward to posting important dates in Ancient Future - Hendrix history!
Ancient Future - Hendrix History: In honor of Ancient Future's upcoming first ever cover tune releases, we're posting historic connections between Ancient Future and Jimi Hendrix. Follow Ancient Future on streaming sites to preview the releases: https://t.co/tTmqIyLQzv
@Ancient_Future I was on the edge of my seat watching Larry Coryell play Rite of Spring! It was truly amazing even though it was obviously a technically impossible feat. Something I will always remember. He did so much for music. RIP.